Lake despair report...

Tournament winner Jon Evans poses with tournament organizer Bill Godin and tournament emcee Mark Allen. 

1	21	Jon Evans	Gus McFaddin	14.56	14.79	29.35
2	12	Kelvin Caul	Ted Heyens	14.18	14.39	28.57
3	1	Doug McBride	Solly McBride	14.24	11.29	25.53
4	24	Ralph Galusha	Scott Galusha	10.62	12.69	23.31
5	33	Dave Evans	Randy Kirk	6.52	16.48	23.00
6	67	Ryan Hyatt	Dale LaBelle	11.49	9.97	21.46
7	47	Chris Bell	Mel Geisbrecht	10.47	10.94	21.41
8	23	Chase Curtis	Corey Curtis	11.47	9.76	21.23
9	46	Jim Gustafson	Ben Gustafson	8.84	13.30	20.07
10	13	Brian Gustafson	Brian White	6.51	13.30	19.81

Top 10 Standings from Shoal Lake

1. Ted Stewner / Louise Stewner - 33.38

2. Jeff Gustafson / Chris Savage - 33.09

3. Scott Cook / Jerry Millar - 32.47

4. Bill Godin / Grant Swire - 31.85

5. Joe Pritchett / Hiram Archibald - 31.59

6. Dean McDonald / Gord Pyzer - 31.14

7. Tim Skead / Fred Morrison - 30.87

8. Jay Samsal / Scott Dingwall - 30.86

9. Mike Causyn / Tim Strempler - 30.70

10. Calvin Joseph / Darryl Joseph - 30.68

2nd place at shoal lake

For those of you that follow my blog on here, my apologies for not updating my site for the past couple week.  I had my appendix removed the third week in June so I was down for a while and did not have a lot to report. 

Chris Savage and I took 2nd place at Shoal Lake this past weekend.  We were actually leading after day one with 16.73.  We brought in 16.36 on day two for a two day total of 33.09 pounds and came up a little bit short of Ted and Louise Stewner who had a two day total of 33.38 pounds to earn them $12,000. 

We weighed in 10 smallmouths over the weekend and caught them on a variety of baits.  We spent a lot of time throwing jerkbaits and caught a number of fish on #10 Rapala X-Raps and Maxx Raps.  We used the jerkbaits to cover water and find fish.  Once we found fish we pitched pearl Northland Slurpies Grubs to them rigged on an 1/8 oz. Slurp Jig.  All the fish we caught were spitting up smelt so we used baits to imitate the slender baitfish. 

We spent a few hours each day largemouth fishing and that was our downfall.  Usually they help us out but we could not get them going and wasted a fair amount of time chasing them.  Oh well...we'll get them at KBI in a month. 

 

Scott Cook and Jerry Millar display part of their tournament big catch on day two of 18.95 pounds that helped earn them a 3rd place finish.

Ted and Louise Stewner pose with the winner's check - $12,000

Youngster catches biggest walleye!!!

8 year old Matthew Nelson of St. Paul, Minnesota caught his biggest walleye last week while we were fishing on Lake of the Woods.  The 28 inch fish put up a good battle and was caught in 20 feet of water.

Caught with: Shimano Cumulus spinning rod, Stradic CI4 reel, 8 lb. Power Pro line and 1/4 oz. Northland Fireball Jig tipped with a minnow. 

Big news from the big tournaments

Both of the regions big bass tournaments, the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship on Rainy Lake and the Kenora Bass International on Lake of the Woods have made some changes to their respective payout structures that most anglers are going to like.

FFCBC Changes: (July 22 - 24)

• Top Rookie Team: $3000 - This prize will be awarded to the highest-finishing team that has not fished the event in the past three years.  (Both anglers)  Pretty good deal if you ask me! 
• Highest Finishing Female Team - A cash prize will be awarded to the highest finishing female team as long as there are at least three all-female teams entered. 
• Highest Finishing Parent/Child Team - A cash prize will be awarded to the highest finishing parent/child team as long as there are at least five eligible teams
• Highest Finishing Mixed Gender Team - A cash prized will be awarded for the highest finishing mixed gender team as long as there are at least three eligible teams.

KBI Changes: (August 5 - 7)

• Prizes for the TOP 5 CATCHES EACH DAY
• Top Team With Combined Age Greater Than 100 Years - $1000
• Top Team With Under 115 HP Motor - $1000
• Increase in cash prizes for top Adult/Youth and Male/Female teams
• Increase in the Top 3 "B-Flight" finishers on Day 3

KBI has a 100% pay-out, which is awesome for the anglers!  Not many tournaments can boast this fact.

Both of these World-class tournaments still have openings for this year if you want to sign up.  For more information, check the websites for each event.

www.canadianbass.com

www.kbifishing.com